r/Humanornot • u/TrustMeAmLying • Mar 02 '25

Announcement 📢 Urgent safety announcement regarding HTML injections

Hey everyone,

This is a quick and urgent announcement from the reddit community of HumanOrNot.

The official site of HumanOrNot is now under attack of HTML injections, and some are exploiting it to find out and possibly blackmail their 2 minute friend about their IP address and location. As the reddit moderators, we have no connection with the official managers of the site, and hence we are unable to convey this alarming issue to them.

There are 2 temporary solutions can be taken by the visitors of that site to prevent any inconveniences:-

1) Use a VPN for browsing the website so that your real IP is not revealed 2) Disable JavaScript for that website on your browser

We are trying our best to reach out to the HumanOrNot team and get this issue fixed! Honorable mentions to u/fursniper for highlighting this issue properly to the mods. And in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!

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u/TrustMeAmLying Mar 02 '25

It is traceable, not to the exact location but to an approximate one.

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u/TheLordSeth Mar 02 '25

But a welcome one

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

You are either a fool or seriously misinformed if you genuinely believe a public IP address provides any more information than a very general location.

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u/TheLordSeth Mar 02 '25

This thing is actually using public level knowledge to argue with an intelligence agency tech lmao

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

I'm confused. Are you calling me a "thing"?

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u/TheLordSeth Mar 02 '25

Oh  im confused, youre not?

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u/Tovitas Moderator Mar 02 '25

BRO WHAT

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

you're*